Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.
Pillow my head on no guesses when I die.
A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is a raft. You cannot easily overturn it. It is a wet place, but it is a pretty safe one.
Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.